Heat oven to 275 degrees or low fire. Scald 2 cups milk in a double boiler. Slowly stir in cornmeal. Cook for 20 minutes. Add sugar and next six ingredients. Bake in a one quart casserole for one hour, stirring twice. Then stir in additional 1/2 cup milk and bake 30 minutes longer. Serve warm with cream.

*submitted by Gwen P.

How
to tell if butter is fresh:

Tight,
waxy, yellow Butter is better than white or crumbly, which
soon becomes rancid and sour. Go into the centre of balls
or rolls to prove and judge it; the middle is to be preferred,
as the sides are frequently sifted by the wood--although oak
and used for years. New pine tubs are ruinous to the butter.
To have sweet butter in dog days, and through the vegetable
seasons, send stone pots to honest, neat, and trusty dairy
people, and procure it mack'd down in May, and let them be
brought in in the night. Or cool rainy morning, covered with
a clean cloth wet in cold water, and partake of no heat from
the horse, and set the pots in the coldest part of your cellar,
or in the ice house. Some say that May butter thus preserved
will go into the winter use, better than fall made butter.